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by jemmyw 2y ago
> abstractions that are not fit for purpose You say that, but react is very successful, indicating that it's abstractions are working just fine for many people. Maybe we'd say they're not perfect but they fit it's pu
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by jemmyw 2y ago
I disagree. React is saying that you need to pass it a function for rendering a component and it does not guarantee how many times that function will be called. There are documented, well defined ways to call side effects based on component
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by jemmyw 2y ago
I'd hoped for more strange fiction novels. There's a Robert Rankin book on the list, I do enjoy his particular odd style.
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by jemmyw 2y ago
I wash my jeans when they get dirty. They can go a couple of months in the winter. My wife is into washing things after every wear and she'd make a big fuss if my jeans were causing an odor so I assume it's fine. Obviously (or may
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by jemmyw 2y ago
It's complex but not that convoluted.
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by jemmyw 2y ago
I've used elm. It's not that great. In many ways it has the same shortcomings as react but far worse. That is you find yourself wanting to do something as yet unsupported (which we often do because otherwise why write new software
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by jemmyw 2y ago
You don't need to guess. You can actually read the code! Not saying that you should straight away when learning, but later, when you're familiar with your framework, I think reading through the codebase and understanding it is goo
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by jemmyw 2y ago
That seems like a pragmatic solution. The point of having a dev mode is to help development and catch mistakes. if(devMode) { rerender() } doesn't seem like magic. Though in general I really dislike the term magic for what is just code
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by jemmyw 2y ago
Painting can be quite an expensive hobby. Maybe not 3.9k per year expensive, but still, I'm sure I've spent more than $1k in the last 12 months. It starts cheap, but the cheap materials tend to be shite. There's always saving
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by jemmyw 2y ago
I don't think it has anything to do with general population level attention span. It's just a result of growing older. My kids inhale books. I don't find the same joy in them as I used to unless they are very well written and
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by jemmyw 2y ago
I enjoyed the article but I think it makes a mistake that takes it to the wrong conclusion. The mistake is the idea that people in the past lived in religious fevour. If we look at history though, it doesn't seem likely that they did.
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by jemmyw 2y ago
WebKitGTK has some really bad performance issues. I've written an app using Tauri and it works very well on Mac and Windows, and it does nothing particularly intensive. On Linux the performance is awful. The Tauri devs acknowledge this
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by jemmyw 2y ago
Kind of. It's already prohibited, depending on what you mean. It would be legal to say all companies can have a tax break if they hire X people in Ireland. It's not legal to give the tax break to one company and deny it to another
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by jemmyw 2y ago
I guess you can wish, but you can't direct people to work on it unless you're paying for it. Why are you yourself working on this rather than either using a more mature stack or working on the foundations?
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by jemmyw 2y ago
Concorde was probably highly economical, just not directly. It could be seen as the project that started Airbus and saved European aircraft manufacturing. Except for not being able to know how things would have turned out if Concorde didn&#
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by jemmyw 2y ago
Labour in the UK didn't win by a slim margin. They were +10% of the popular vote and have a landslide majority in Parliament. It hasn't been unusual in the past for a govt in the UK to win while losing the popular vote, so they do
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by jemmyw 2y ago
I looked at them awhile ago while lamenting that Lego doesn't do a Star Trek line. But you can't tell me their designs are better. I watched the video of the 2 chaps going through the sets and they're just not things of beaut
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by jemmyw 2y ago
I buy the occasional set for myself and then quite a few for my kids every year. I'm not seeing it myself, the quality seems as good as ever, and the designs better than ever. It's never been a cheap toy, and yeah prices have gone
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by jemmyw 2y ago
I thought so too, but after switching to a Kobo I realized how annoying and laggy the kindles are.
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by jemmyw 2y ago
Motion detector night lights. I've got a bunch of them. Softer light, no need to make a noise and wake anyone else up. One in the loo, one outside my room, one on the fridge, several down the hallway. They're on magnetic stickies
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by jemmyw 2y ago
Polar have a desktop app and I didn't need to set up my Polar V watch via a phone (although I do use the phone app). No idea about the hourly data. The battery lasts 4-5 days.
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by jemmyw 2y ago
> The American government is the longest continually existing "regime" in the world I'm fairly sure the regime in the UK has lasted longer, technically. You could say that the laws that enabled the current system came into
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by jemmyw 2y ago
the most interesting thing I've read on this subject is that Russia is using Telegram as a military communication tool. In the early days of the Ukraine war there were some reports on how the offical communication infrastructure they h
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by jemmyw 2y ago
Controversial take maybe, but who really gives a damn? Filing cabinets that haven't been opened for 50 years? I'm sure people would flock to a museum to see those /s. Researchers obviously weren't that interested. If pri
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by jemmyw 2y ago
But as the parent poster said, most of those things are adequate without the watch. I have a watch but it's a nice to have rather than essential.
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by jemmyw 2y ago
Because the question didn't make sense. The fund wouldn't collapse if they stop adding oil funds to it, it will continue to exist as an investment. That's actually the point of it, to continue once the oil is gone.
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by jemmyw 2y ago
Aha! https://www.aha.io
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by jemmyw 2y ago
> problem with talks of "splitting up Google" is that Google is an ad company This is a little unimaginative. Google's ad business could be split horizontally or vertically to make space for competition. It's simplist
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by jemmyw 2y ago
I read through some of the documents of the original complaint. This is mainly not about Google being the dominant search engine for consumers. It's more to do with their anti competitive behavior in the ad tech market. As a consumer,
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by jemmyw 2y ago
I clicked because I thought this was going to be about the game

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